DUBAI / WAM Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development and Chairwoman of Digital Wellbeing Council, emphasised that the UAE wellbeing indicator achieved accelerated progress in social, healthcare, educational and economic aspects supported by the UAE leadership and its future vision in light of the changes to enhance the new methodology of government action. Coinciding with the year of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has expressed its strong denunciation and condemnation of the attempts by the Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in a systematic and deliberate manner in Jazan and Khamis Mushait in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with two booby-trapped drones, which were intercepted by Coalition forces. In a statement issued ...

Dubai / WAM The newly-established UAE Infrastructure and Housing Council held its first meeting to discuss the challenges, priorities, policies and legislation that serve the direction of the state and contribute to realising aspirations of the government for the welfare of the Emirati people. The council also reviewed the housing plans for the coming years and the provision of multiple ...

Boris Johnson likes to quote Latin picked up from his study of the classics. He should know the tale of the Roman general who, upon entering his city in triumph, was reminded, “hominem te memento” — you are a mere mortal. But after a crushing election victory over the Labour party in 2019 and a ruthless elimination of his internal ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Post Group, in cooperation with Dubai Municipality, issued a set of commemorative stamps featuring the Saruq Al Hadid archaeological site in Dubai, one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the UAE. The stamps bear images of a “Golden Ring”, “Gold Crown Model”, and “Pottery Storage Jar”, all of which represent the most prominent unearthed ...

Dubai / WAM More than 120 permanent buildings across Expo 2020 Dubai have been certified by the US Green Building Council in a major sustainability milestone, not only for the mega-event itself, but for its legacy project District 2020, the human-centric sustainable smart city that will repurpose 80 percent of the Expo site. Seven buildings across the 4.38 sqkm location, ...

As the automobile industry evolves toward an electric future, incentives will be a big driver of the transition — not just potential tax credits to accelerate demand, but investor behaviour that helps shift automakers’ priorities. Manufacturers are going to try to ramp up spending on future electric models while maintaining profit at a level acceptable to their shareholders. That will ...

If a stock market is a mirror of a society’s state of mind, then the US is feeling exuberant right now. But in China, it is all about trepidation. Investors there are worried the government is going to mess things up. Both economies face the same set of problems: Supply chain disruptions, inflation pressures, the threat of rising interest rates. ...

Reinventing conservatism sounds like an oxymoron. How exactly would you reimagine a political philosophy that — as its intellectual father, Edmund Burke, expounded more than two centuries ago — largely consists of opposing radical reinventions? And yet a drastic rethink is what center-right politicians in much of Europe urgently need. After all, their main standard-bearer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is ...

Bloomberg British Airways parent IAG SA said cash flows turned positive in the third quarter and that North Atlantic demand has begun to surge as the US prepares to reopen its border to vaccinated Europeans next week. Long-haul bookings are now recovering faster than short-haul sales, with the premium leisure segment performing particularly strongly at BA and Spanish arm Iberia, ...